I counted. Twenty-eight seconds green Two seconds yellow Thirty-seven seconds red One second yellow And again Twenty-eight seconds green Backlight The traffic light turned one hundred this summer, on August 5. I learn this from the “Innovation” section of the Siemens website. Apparently, the first electric traffic light was put in operation in Cleveland, Ohio. Its control signals were operated by a police officer who sat in a little shack at the intersection and rang…

Right now I feel that I’ve got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned. —Baseball pitcher Bo Belinsky 1. The great cities in our day are full of people who do not like it there 1 [Enter a Letter] My roommates and I received a letter in the mail the other day. It was addressed to “The owners of: [address of our building].” I opened it and it said: Real estate urgently needed! Dear Owner, Are you considering selling…

For my Night School seminar that took place at the New Museum in New York in October 2008, I invited Avery Gordon and Tom Keenan to each have conversations in Whole Foods, a huge organic supermarket around the corner from the New Museum. The original plan had been to hold the entire seminar there instead of in the museum’s auditorium, but this plan failed when the supermarket refused to grant us permission. Instead, we held our conversations there and documented them using wireless…

For my Night School seminar that took place at the New Museum in New York in October 2008, I invited Avery Gordon and Tom Keenan to have conversations in Whole Foods, a huge organic supermarket around the corner from the New Museum. The original plan had been to hold the entire seminar there instead of in the museum’s auditorium, but this plan failed when the supermarket refused to grant us permission. Instead, we held our conversations there and documented them using wireless microphones…